Will It Blow?: Become a Volcano Detective at Mount St. Helens

by Elizabeth Rusch, K. E. Lewis (Illustrator)

Overview

Will Mount St. Helens erupt again? Will it spit lava or unleash a deadly mudflow? Learn how to be a volcano detective, sifting through the evidence, searching for clues, and solving real-life cases. This classroom favorite has won numerous awards, including being named a Washington Reads pick, a Natural History magazine Best Book for Young Readers, and an Oregon Book Award finalist.

Featuring new cover art, the updated edition of this award-winning book explores the science behind the volcano’s eruptions and shows children how to do their own sleuthing to determine when and if the volcano will blow again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632171108
Publisher:	Sasquatch Books
Publication date:	04/04/2017
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	48
Sales rank:	366,461
Product dimensions:	10.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

ELIZABETH RUSCH has published more than 100 magazine articles for children and adults and 10 award-winning books for young readers, including Ready, Set . . . Baby!; Volcano Rising; Eruption!: Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives; and Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World. Her work has been honored by the Junior Library Guild, ALA, School Library Journal, Kirkus, NBC News, the Oregon Book Award, Washington Reads, and the New York Public Library. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, two terrific kids, and one very funny, quirky dog named Reba.

Editorial Reviews

"It is a fantastic book for kids as they are introduced to science."
—Parenting Healthy

"Perfect for summer vacations." 
—Northwest Healthy Mama

From the Publisher

Gr 4-6
This book challenges readers to become volcanic-eruption predictors. Using Mt. St. Helens and its spectacular 1980 eruption as well as other smaller eruptions there as "the suspect," a variety of clues-on temperature, ground deformation, etc.-are presented, and their significance to the pre-1980 mountain is explained. Finally, scenarios describe other, smaller volcanic events on Mt. St. Helens, and detective-readers are asked to deduce from the conditions whether an explosion happened or not. A concluding page in each chapter gives the answer. The text is breezy, its light humor masking the fact that it is packed with information. Each chapter contains an easy experiment, ranging from creating a soda-bottle eruption to acting as a "human seismograph," that's suitable for science projects or classroom use. Cartoons and color photographs keep step with the text, and green topic boxes (explaining how scientists collect rocks from inside a crater, how they measure telltale gases in the air, and more) are liberally sprinkled throughout. Team this with titles like Melvin and Hilda Berger's Why Do Volcanoes Blow Their Tops? (Scholastic, 2000), Donna O'Meara's personal Into the Volcano (Kids Can, 2005), and/or Chris Hayhurst's Volcanologists (Rosen, 2003) for expanded use of this work describing a real-life volcano, its geological messages, and the scientists who decipher the language of the Earth to predict the next blast.
—Patricia ManningCopyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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